Joke

1. What did the sick chicken say?

I have the people-pox!

2. Why do hummingbirds hum?

Because they forgot the words!

3. What is a chick after she's 6 days old?

Seven days old!

4. What is black when u buy it, red when u use it and grey when u throw it away?

Coal

5. Why are cooks cruel?

Because they whip cream and beat eggs!!

6. What is a book's favorite food?

A bookworm.

7. What do the library computers like to eat for snacks?

Chips.

8. Why did the computer sneeze?

It had a virus.

9. What did the chewing gum say to the shoe?

I'm stuck on you

10. What did one mountain say to the other mountain?

Let's meet in the valley

11. What bird steals from the rich to give to the poor?

Robin Hood

12. Why did the woman wear a helmet at the dinner table?

She was on a crash diet.

13. Why do birds fly south?

Because it is too far to walk.

14. Why are Teddy Bears never hungry?

Because they are always stuffed.

15. What did one book say to the other one?

I just wanted to see if we are on the same page

16. Why do authors always get good marks on tests?

They know how to copy-right.

Intresting Fish

Jelly fish

The fish called jellyfish floats at the ocean surface and is most commonly washed up on beaches during high wave and after a storm. Jellyfish provide for marine life that gets caught up in their poison-containing tentacles.

It looks like a pale, semi-transparent and saucer-shaped jellyfish. The length of the fish is 16” wide and habitat the surface of ocean and large harbors. It range Arctic to Florida and Mexico; Alaska to southern California.

Yellowtail Snapper

The Yellowtail Snapper is a kind of fish travels in schools and feeds on fishes and a variety of small sea creatures. It is a superb food fish and a respected sport fish. It looks like an attractive snapper with a split tail, Yellow stripe on sides extends to both parts of tail fin. Its length is 28”, habitat inshore and coral reefs. Its wide range in Massachusetts to Brazil, including West Indies.

Creative child

Creativity is a mental and social progression relating the generation of new ideas and concepts, Do you want to be a creative child? The child who can come up with astonishing ideas, keep busy himself, solve troubles and enjoy the supernatural side of childhood. Today problem is that it seems every toy and children’s program focuses on education, not it depends on creativity. But you can still promote the creative spark. Start by fine-tuning your attitudes. And don’t be worried that focusing on creativity will spoil your education.

Creative children are often better learners than normal one.

"Creativity lets children develop their skills in a way that works for them"
-says Karen Halpern,

Walk up to spark the world with new ideas of your creativity.

KIDS BEWARE ON INTERNET!

In Internet there are a lot of information like education, game, ect are available for kids. Kids must be very carefully while surfing the internet because there are also a lot of people and web sites. Below are some rules:

1. Do not give any personal information such as address, telephone number, ect., without permission from your parents.

2. Do not click any links that you don’t know. Such links could lead to inappropriate web sites.

3. If you feel uncomfortable immediately tell to your parents.

4. Before downloading any programs to your computer ask your parents to check.

5. Never send your photos or anything else to anyone.

6. Internet password must secret do not tell to anyone except your parents.

Follow the rules, they are not to stop your fun, they are to make sure you are safe online. Have fun!

Healthy Day

Breakfast is one of the most important things in every day life. After a long sleep energy gets low so our body always needs energy. To gain energy everyone wants to take heavy breakfast, it fills your "empty tank" to get you going for a long time without food. And it can help you to do better work.

In the afternoon lunch needs some kind of nutrients like protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals such as vitamins A and C, iron etc., these all you get from a variety of foods like, grains, vegetables.

Evening Kids often eat food like French fries, ice cream etc., at the same time your body need nutrient. Oats is the most nutritious in cereal varieties. Try fruits, vegetables raw, on a sandwich or in a salad.

For dinner you can prefer very liter food its good and best. Like the saying says,

“Have the breakfast as a rich man, lunch as a middle man and dinner as a beggar.”

What your food can do?

Bananas and other foods packed with potassium can help muscles work their best so you can play active around for hours.

Spinach and other foods high in vitamin A can keep your skin healthy.

Tomatoes and other healthy foods, together with exercise, can help keep you healthy and powerful so you can blow up balloons faster for a party

Blueberries and strawberries and other colorful fruits can help you stay healthy and strong and are also good for turning your tongue all the colors of rainbow.

Low fat cheese on whole wheat bread can help make your body strong and might even make you burp louder!

Melons like Mango and watermelon and other fruits filled with vitamin A can help you see better which can help you spit watermelon seeds right on target!

Oranges, lemons and other fruits packed with vitamin C can help you heal faster but don’t squeeze them on a cut – ouch! That’s not fun.

Low-fat milk and other milk products that are crammed with calcium can help make your bones strong so you can skateboard or bike better.

Chicken, fish and other lean meats are filled with protein and can help keep your muscles strong so you win that next race.

Carrots and other vegetables jam packed with vitamin A can help your eyes stay healthy so you can find your friends faster playing hide-and-seek.

Leafy green vegetables full of vitamins help keep you energized so you can your fastest during a soccer game.

A balanced breakfast can help kick – start your day and healthy eating can help you concentrate better in school, so you become faster, stronger and smarter.

Beans and other foods high in iron can help your body stay energized and you know what they say about beans.

The Origins of the Buffalo Dance

When the buffalo first came to be upon the land, they were not friendly to the people. When the hunters tried to coax them over the cliffs for the good of the villages, they were reluctant to offer themselves up. They did not relish being turned into blankets and dried flesh for winter rations. They did not want their hooves and horn to become tools and utinsels nor did they welcome their sinew being used for sewing. "No, no," they said. We won't fall into your traps. And we will not fall for your tricks." So when the hunters guided them towards the abyss, they would always turn aside at the very last moment. With this lack of cooperation, it seemed the villagers would be hungry and cold and ragged all winter long.

Now one of the hunters' had a daughter who was very proud of her father's skill with the bow. During the fullness of summer, he always brought her the best of hides to dress, and she in turn would work the deerskins into the softest, whitest of garments for him to wear. Her own dresses were like the down of a snow goose, and the moccasins she made for the children and the grandmothers in the village were the most welcome of gifts.

But now with the hint of snow on the wind, and deer becoming more scarce in the willow breaks, she could see this reluctance on the part of the buffalo families could become a real problem.
Hunter's Daughter decided she would do something about it.

She went to the base of the cliff and looked up. She began to sing in a low, soft voice, "Oh, buffalo family, come down and visit me. If you come down and feed my relatives in a wedding feast, I will join your family as the bride of your strongest warrior."

She stopped and listened. She thought she heard the slight rumbling sound of thunder in the distance.
Again she sang, "Oh, buffalo family, come down and visit me. Feed my family in a wedding feast so that I may be a bride."

The thunder was much louder now. Suddenly the buffalo family began falling from the sky at her feet.

One very large bull landed on top of the others, and walked across the backs of his relatives to stand before Hunter's Daughter.

"I am here to claim you as my bride," said Large Buffalo.

"Oh, but now I am afraid to go with you," said Hunter's Daughter.

"Ah, but you must," said Large Buffalo, "For my people have come to provide your people with a wedding feast. As you can see, they have offered themselves up."

"Yes, but I must run and tell my relatives the good news," said Hunter's Daughter. "No," said Large Buffalo. No word need be sent. You are not getting away so easily."

And with that said, Large Buffalo lifted her between his horns and carried her off to his village in the rolling grass hills.

The next morning the whole village was out looking for Hunter's Daughter. When they found the mound of buffalo below the cliff, the father, who was in fact a fine tracker as well as a skilled hunter, looked at his daughter's footprints in the dust.

"She's gone off with a buffalo, he said. I shall follow them and bring her back."

So Hunter walked out upon the plains, with only his bow and arrows as companions. He walked and walked a great distance until he was so tired that he had to sit down to rest beside a buffalo wallow.

Along came Magpie and sat down beside him.

Hunter spoke to Magpie in a respectful tone, "O knowledgeable bird, has my daughter been stolen from me by a buffalo? Have you seen them? Can you tell me where they have gone?"
Magpie replied with understanding, "Yes, I have seen them pass this way. They are resting just over this hill."

"Well," said Hunter, would you kindly take my daughter a message for me? Will you tell her I am here just over the hill?"

So Magpie flew to where Large Buffalo lay asleep amidst his relatives in the dry prairie grass. He hopped over to where Hunter's Daughter was quilling moccasins, as she sat dutifully beside her sleeping husband. "Your father is waiting for you on the other side of the hill," whispered Magpie to the maiden.

"Oh, this is very dangerous," she told him. These buffalo are not friendly to us and they might try to hurt my father if he should come this way. Please tell him to wait for me and I will try to slip away to see him."

Just then her husband, Large Buffalo, awoke and took off his horn. "Go bring me a drink from the wallow just over this hill," said her husband.

So she took the horn in her hand and walked very casually over the hill.

Her father motioned silently for her to come with him, as he bent into a low crouch in the grass.

"No," she whispered. The buffalo are angry with our people who have killed their people. They will run after us and trample us into the dirt. I will go back and see what I can do to soothe their feelings."

And so Hunter's daughter took the horn of water back to her husband who gave a loud snort when he took a drink. The snort turned into a bellow and all of the buffalo got up in alarm. They all put their tails in the air and danced a buffalo dance over the hill, trampling the poor man to pieces who was still waiting for his daughter near the buffalo wallow.

His daughter sat down on the edge of the wallow and broke into tears.

"Why are you crying?" said her buffalo husband.

"You have killed my father and I am a prisoner, besides," she sobbed.

"Well, what of my people?" her husband replied. We have given our children, our parents and some of our wives up to your relatives in exchange for your presence among us. A deal is a deal."
But after some consideration of her feelings, Large Buffalo knelt down beside her and said to her, "If you can bring your father back to life again, we will let him take you back home to your people."

So Hunter's Daughter started to sing a little song. "Magpie, Magpie help me find some piece of my father which I can mend back whole again."

Magpie appeared and sat down in front of her with his head cocked to the side.
"Magpie, Magpie, please see what you can find," she sang softly to the wind which bent the grasses slightly apart. Magpie cocked his head to the side and looked carefully within the layered folds of the grasses as the wind sighed again. Quickly he picked out a piece of her father that had been hidden there, a little bit of bone.

"That will be enough to do the trick," said Hunter's Daughter, as she put the bone on the ground and covered it with her blanket.

And then she started to sing a reviving song that had the power to bring injured people back to the land of the living. Quietly she sang the song that her grandmother had taught her. After a few melodious passages, there was a lump under the blanket. She and Magpie looked under the blanket and could see a man, but the man was not breathing. He lay cold as stone. So Hunter's Daughter continued to sing, a little softer, and a little softer, so as not to startle her father as he began to move. When he stood up, alive and strong, the buffalo people were amazed. They said to Hunter's Daughter, "Will you sing this song for us after every hunt? We will teach your people the buffalo dance, so that whenever you dance before the hunt, you will be assured a good result. Then you will sing this song for us, and we will all come back to live again."

The Buffalo and the Field Mouse

Once upon a time, when the Field-Mouse was out gathering wild beans for the winter, his neighbor, the Buffalo, came down to graze in the meadow. This the little Mouse did not like, for he knew that the other would mow down all the long grass with his prickly tongue, and there would be no place in which to hide. He made up his mind to offer battle like a man.

"Ho, Friend Buffalo, I challenge you to a fight! "he exclaimed in a small, squeaking Voice.

The Buffalo paid no attention, thinking it only a joke. The Mouse angrily repeated the challenge, and still his enemy went on quietly grazing. Then the little Mouse
laughed with contempt as he offered his defiance. The Buffalo at last looked at him and replied carelessly:

"You had better keep still, little one, or I shall come over there and step on you, and there will be nothing left! "

"You can't do it! "replied the Mouse.

"I tell you to keep still,"insisted the Buffalo, who was getting angry. "If you speak to me again, I shall certainly come and put an end to you! "

"I dare you to do it! "said the Mouse, provoking him.

Thereupon the other rushed upon him. He trampled thc grass clumsily and tore up the earth with his front hoofs. When he had ended, he looked for the Mouse, but he
could not see him anywhere.

"I told you I would step on you, and there would be nothing left! "he muttered.

Just then he felt a scratching inside his right ear. He shook his head as hard as he could, and twitched his ears back and forth. The gnawing went deeper and deeper until he was half wild with the pain. He pawed with his hoofs and tore up the sod with his horns.
Bellowing madly, he ran as fast as he could, first straight forward and then in circles, but at last he stopped and stood trembling. Then the Mouse jumped out of his ear, and said:

"Will you know now that I am master? "

"No! "bellowed the Buffalo, and again he started toward the Mouse, as if to trample him under his feet. The little fellow was nowhere to be seen, but in a minute the Buffalo felt him in the other ear. Once more he became wild with pain, and ran here and there over the prairie, at times leaping high in the air. At last he fell to the ground and lay quite still. The Mouse came out of his ear, and stood proudly upon his dead body.

"Eho! "said he, "I have killed the greatest of all beasts.This will show to all that I am master! " Standing upon the body of the dead Buffalo, he called loudly for a knife with which to dress his game.

In another part of the meadow, Red Fox, very hungry, was hunting mice for his breakfast. He saw one and jumped upon him with all four feet, but the little Mouse got away, and he was terribly disappointed.

All at once he thought he heard a distant call: "Bring a knife! Bring a knife ! "

When the second call came, Red Fox started in the direction of the sound. At the first knoll he stopped and listened, but hearing nothing more, he was about to go back. Just then he heard the call plainly, but in a very thin voice, "Bring a knife!"Red Fox immediately set out again and ran as fast as he could.

By and by he came upon the huge body of the Buffalo lying upon the ground. The little Mouse still stood upon the body.

"I want you to dress this Buffalo for me and I will give you some of the eat,"commanded the Mouse.

"Thank you, my friend, I shall be glad to do this for you,"he replied, politely.

The Fox dressed the Buffalo, while the Mouse sat upon a mound near by, looking on and giving his orders. "You must cut the meat into small pieces," he said to the Fox.
When the Fox had finished his work, the Mouse paid him with a small piece of liver. He swallowed it quickly and smacked his lips.

"Please, may I have another piece?" he asked quite humbly.

"Why, I gave you a very large piece! How greedy you are!"exclaimed the Mouse. "You may have some of the blood clots,"he sneered. So the poor Fox took the blood
clots and even licked off the grass. He was really very hungry.

"Please may I take home a piece of the meat?"he begged. "I have six little folks at home, and there is nothing for them to eat."

"You can take the four feet of the Buffalo. That ought to be enough for all of you!"

"Hi, hi! Thank you, thank you!" said the Fox. "But, Mouse, I have a wife also, and we have had bad luck in hunting. We are almost starved. Can't you spare me a
little more?"

"Why,"declared the Mouse, "I have already overpaid you for the little work you have done. However, you can take the head, too!"


Thereupon the Fox jumped upon the Mouse, who gave one faint squeak and disappeared.

If you are proud and selfish you will lose all in the end.

Books for older Children

Little Miss Mary and the Big Monster Makeover - by G.G. Toropov and Cleone Cassidy
Mr. Coyote Meets Mr. Snail - by Storie-Jean Agapith, a native American indian author
Absulum the Reindeer Elf - by Duncan Wells
Grow Your Own Gargoyle - by Valerie Hardin
The Wumpalump - by Cheryl Pearson
The Loomploy - by Cheryl Pearson
The Littlest Knight - by Carol Moore
McFeeglebee's Pond - by Carol Moore
Who Did Patrick's Homework? - by Carol Moore
It Could Happen... - by Carol Moore

Books for Young Children

The Wiener Dog Magnet - by Hayes Roberts
The Farm Animals - by Rolando Merino
Pirate's Treasure - by Carol Moore
The Bitaba Bird - by Carol Moore
Wolstencroft The Bear - by Karen
Ollie's Jar - by Carol Moore
Round Bird Can't Fly - by Lea McAndrewsKitty Wants a Box - by Carol Moore
Buzzy Bee - by Carol Moore
Buzzy Bee and Friends - by Carol Moore
Buzzy Bee's Night Out - by Carol Moore
Buzzy Bee's Picnic - by Carol Moore
The Counting Story - by Rolando Merino
Alphabet - by Rolando Merino
Animals You Can See at the Zoo - by Rolando Merino